An improved rainfall disaggregation technique for GCMs

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 103, Issue D16, 1998, Pages 19577-19586

  Onof, C ^a   Mackay, N G ^a   Oh, L ^a   Wheater, H S ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MODELING; RAINFALL;

EID: 0032572947     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98JD01147     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Collier, C. G., The application of a continental-scale radar database to hydrological process parameterization within general circulation models, J. Hydrol., 142, 301-318, 1992.
2. Dolman, A. J., and D. Gregory, The parameterization of rainfall interception in GCMs, Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 118, 455-469, 1992.
3. Eagleson, P. S., Climate, soil, and vegetation, 2, The distribution of annual precipitation derived from observed storm sequences, Water Resour. Res., 14(5), 713-721, 1978.
4. Eltahir, E. A. B., and R. L. Bras, Estimation of the fractional coverage of rainfall in climate models, J. Clim., 6(4), 639-644, 1993.
5. Fan, Y., E. Wood, M. L. Baeck, and J. Smith, Fractional coverage of rainfall over a grid: Analyses of NEXRAD data over the southern Plains, Water Res. Res., 52(9), 2787-2802, 1996.
6. Gao, X., and S. Sorooshian, A stochastic precipitation disaggregation scheme for GCM applications, J. Clim., 7(2), 238-247, 1994.
7. Gregory, D., and R. N. B. Smith, Canopy, surface and soil hydrology, Unified Model Doc. Pap. 25, version 1, Meteorol. Off., Bracknell, England, 1900.
8. Kedem, B., L. S. Chiu, and Z. Karni, An analysis of the threshold method for measuring area-average rainfall, J. Appl. Meteorol., 29, 1-20, 1990.
9. Kumar, P., and E. Foufoula-Georgiou, A new look at rainfall fluctuations and scaling properties of spatial rainfall using orthogonal wavelets, J. Appl. Meteorol., 32, 209-222, 1993.
10. Lovejoy, S., and D. Schertzer, Multifractals, Universality classes and satellite and radar measurements of cloud and rain fields, J. Geophys. Res., 95, 2021-2034, 1990.
11. Matsubayashi, U., F. Takagi, and A. Tonomwa, The probability density function of areal average rainfall, J. Hydrosci. Hydraul. Eng., 2(1), 63-71, 1984.
12. Oh, L., Analysis of rainfall disaggregation in GCM, M.S. thesis, Imperial College, London, 1993.
13. Onof, C., and H. S. Wheater, Analysis of the spatial coverage of British rainfall fields, J. Hydrol., 176, 97-113, 1996a.
14. Onof, C., and H. S. Wheater, Modelling of the time-series of spatial coverages of British rainfall fields, J. Hydrol., 176, 115-131, 1996b.
15. Over, T. M., and V. K. Gupta, A space-time theory of mesoscale rainfall using random cascades, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 26,319-26,331, 1996.
16. Warrilow, D. A., and E. Buckley, The impact of land surface processes on the moisture budget of a climate model, Ann. Geophys., 7, 439-450, 1989.
17. Warrilow, D. A., A. B. Sangster, and A. Slingo, Modelling of land surface processes and their influence on European climate, DCTN 38, 92 pp., Dyn. Climatol., Meteorol. Off., Bracknell, England, 1986.